What will Goats Eat: Weeds, brush and other unwanted vegetation.
Contrary to popular belief- Goats will not eat everything.
Goats Prefer weeds and brush over grasses! Goats will eat ornamental vegetation. Any areas that you want to keep goats out of must be secured from the goats to ensure that they do not eat plants that you wish to keep.
Goats will eat many Noxious and Nuisance Weeds and plants. Below is a partial list of what goats will eat.
Goats will eat thistles.
Blackberry bushes
Canada thistle Cheat grass Curly dock (Indian tobacco) Dalmation toadflax Dyers woad Hoary cress (Small white top) Himalayan knotweed Ivey Junipers Leafy spurge Perennial pepperwood (Tall white top) It is like candy to them Poison oak Quack grass sedge Scotch thistle Spotted knapweed Yellow toadflax |
Common tansey
Diffuse knapweed Gorse Japenese knotweed Kochia Mountain mahagony Medusha head Musk thistle Poison ivey Nettle Purple star thistle Russian knapweed Russian olive Scotch broom Spanish broom Wild rose Willows Yellow star thistle |
Some plants are poisonous to Goats
below is a partial list of plants that we will need to know about before our Goats are placed on your property.
Azela-Datura(Jimson Weed)-Holly-Lilacs-Lilly of the Valley-Oleander-Red Maples-Rhododendron,Hemlock.